Tuesday 9 March 2021

Grow Your Own: Thompson & Morgan seeds giveaway E: 17 March

March is here, a month when we start to see the signs of spring everywhere around us. The growing season is ahead, and you might be going through your packets of seeds, deciding what to grow this year. 

It's almost a year since the first lockdown was introduced. One of the positives of the lockdown was that many more people caught the gardening bug and were keen to grow their own fruit and vegetables.

 I have been growing tomatoes in the greenhouse for many years, and in the past I usually bought plants from the garden centre, only growing salads and herbs from seeds. But as last year the garden centres were all closed, I decided to grow tomatoes from seeds, and it was a great success. We had beautiful tomatoes for several months, in fact, we had so many, that half of them went in the freezer to use in soups and stews later in the year.

Growing your own vegetables is so rewarding, and they taste so much better.

I subscribe to Grow Your Own magazine, each issue comes with ten or so packets of seeds, and though I have been giving away quite a few of them to my friends, I have accumulated way too many. 

I want to share some of my bounty with my blog readers, and offer two packages of twelve packets of seeds as a giveaway prize.

Whether you are an experienced gardener or a beginner who wants to try growing vegetables, I think these two selections will be a lovely addition to your seed collection. These two packages are quite similar, but you might have a look at each and decide which one takes your fancy.

Selection 1:

Tomato Ailsa Craig (I grew these ones last year, and they were exceptionally good!), Carrot Early Nantes 2, Beetroot Paonazza d'Egitto, Cabbage primo, Radish Cherry Belle, Chilli Pepper Anaheim, Leek Autumn Giant 2, Watercress, Spinach Perpetual, Lettuce Little Gem, Lettuce Red Salad Bowl and Kale Dwarf Green Curled.

Chez Maximka, vegetable seeds giveaway

Selection 2:

Tomato Craigella, Chilli Pepper Cayenne, Radish Flamboyant 3, Beetroot Detroit 6 Rubidus, Carrot Early Nantes 2, Cabbage Durham Early, Kale Scarlet, Leek Autumn Giant 2, Lettuce All the Year Round, Spinach Perpetual, Watercress and Lettuce Lollo Rossa.

vegetable seeds giveaway, Chez Maximka

To be in with a chance of winning please leave a comment, stating which selection you prefer (or if you don't mind either) and answer a question: What do you enjoy growing (or what you would like to grow this year)?

T&Cs:

The giveaway is open to the UK residents only.

Please leave your name or Twitter username in the comment if you login as Anon, or I will never know who has commented.

There will two winners (one selection each).

Only one entry per person.

The winners will be selected randomly.

I will contact the winners, who will have 28 days to reply with their address details.

All the prizes are provided by me, and are in no way sponsored by any brand.
This is my way of saying Thank you to my blog readers.

Previous winners of giveaways at Chez Maximka are welcome to join in as well, you're not disqualified from winning again, if your name is drawn from the hat.

I will post the prize at my own cost.

Any personal data given (basically the winner's address details) will not be shared with any 3rd parties, and will be deleted after the prize is received by the winner.

The giveaway will end on the 17 March midnight.

Good luck!

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Thank you, everyone, for taking part! Two winners were selected randomly, and were notified on Twitter. I will announce their names here, once they get back to me. And please check your Twitter notifications, it might be you!


9 comments:

  1. Aww, what a lovely giveaway. I started planting seeds inside, in pots. We've had some shop-bought salad yesterday which I topped with some pot-grown salad leaves. It's quite exciting to start gardening again, isn't it?

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  2. I would love selection 1 - I really enjoy growing in the garden with the kids, they enjoy growing watercress

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  3. I’d love any I have just brought a small greenhouse and eager to try growing my own fruit and vegetables

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  4. i would love selection 1. my favourite thing to grow is sweetcorn - tastes sweeter and fresher than anything shop bought!

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  5. Margaret Clarkson @kirschmj
    I would like either selection. I would like to try growing asparagus this year, I tried last year but it didn't thrive.

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  6. I was just looking at our patio this weekend and saying that we should start replanting some seeds. Spring is definitely on the way - thank goodness for that ! I'd like either selection :)

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  7. I'd like either selection but I'm pretty sure my husband, who does all the gardening, would prefer the first because the chillies are Anaheim. He's a passionate chilli grower and he already has plenty seeds for Cayenne.
    @janesgrapevine

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  8. I would love to win selection my goal is to plant a more varied assormant of vegetables this year

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  9. I would love to win selection one please - we have been rather behind with our planting ideas this year

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